In our latest MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com) poll, we asked readers to decide which fighter should be named the most outstanding mixed martial artist of 2009.

After tabulating the thousands of votes cast for each of the seven finalists, one fighter secured one-third of the vote as the 2009 Fighter of the Year.

Current UFC welterweight champion Georges St-Pierre (19-2 MMA, 13-2 UFC) earned 33 percent of the vote, which was tops on the list.

St-Pierre went 2-0 on the year with two very high-profile wins. The Canadian earned a dominating TKO victory over lightweight champion B.J. Penn in January then returned to action with an equally impressive five-round domination over top-contender Thiago Alves. Add in a pair of high-profile endorsement deals with Gatorade and Under Armour, and 2009 was a pretty good year for “Rush.”

Next on the list was Brazilian featherweight sensation Jose Aldo (16-1 MMA, 6-0 WEC), who earned 17 percent of the vote.

Aldo went an impressive 4-0 during 2009, though his four wins required just seven minutes and 22 seconds of actual cage time. Aldo won his four fights over Mike Brown, Cub Swanson, Chris Mickle and Rolando Perez by stoppage. The win over Brown earned Aldo the WEC’s 145-pound title at just 23 years old.

Aldo had actually discussed dropping to 135 pounds before earning the belt.

WAMMA heavyweight champ Fedor Emelianenko (31-1 MMA, 1-0 SF) finished next on the list at 14 percent, earning just a few hundred more votes than UFC light heavyweight champ Lyoto Machida (16-0 MMA, 8-0 UFC), who also received 14 percent of the response.

The “Other” response received an impressive 7.5 percent of the response. Based on comments in the voting thread, that slot was driven up by those that feel UFC lightweight champion B.J. Penn (15-5-1 MMA, 11-4-1 UFC) deserved the Fighter of the Year designation despite the loss to St-Pierre.

What do you think? Did the voters get it right? Discuss below, and don’t forget to vote on our current poll for the 2009 Fight of the Year on the MMAjunkie.com homepage.

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